St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-28
FOK INV Y EMS AND D q DGEs3.
The Usual Divorce -CaseS---Minor
Court Doings Yesterday.

Caroline Riburg married Christian
Neuhauss at st. Paul, Dec. /, 1885, and
now she has filed an action for divorce
on the grounds of adultery and cruel
and inhuman treatment. She is twenty
three and he is thirty-two years old.
There is now one child, thirteen months;
old, girl, as the issue OF. this marriage.
The plaintiff alleges that on or about
Sept. 20, 1856, the defendant committed
adultery with an unknown woman at
house of prostitution III st. Paul. and
also on several occasions at houses of
the same character in Minneapolis. She
has not lived with her husband since
she learned of this. The plaintiff fur
ther alleges that the defendant has been
guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment,
having thrown her from the house into
the street. Besides decree of divorce,
she asks for the custody of the child and
permission to take her maiden name
again.
REAL ESTATE SUIT.
Dudley Freeman has brought suit
against S. j. Ahern ct al. to quiet tBe
title to five lots in block 16, of Anna E.
Ramsey's addition to st. Paul. The
plaintiff alleges that on April 1b,s1SS1,
the defendant, Ahern. claimed to he the
owner of the lots in dispute, which Ire
purchased of Elliott Il Shea,5reaf estate
agents, who had fve-days' contract on
the same. The price paid was SLIPS
per lot, One-third down and the re-
mainder to be covered by notes and
mortgages. Plaintiff further alleges that
when he presented the securities to
Ahern he refused to recognize the con-
tract or to convey the property, and the
suit is brought to compel him to make
the conveyance. and if he is unable to
do this the plaintiff asks for 1915 dam
ages.
THE COAL HOLE.
Thursday afternoon motion for dis
mSSal of the case of Abraham Adams
against the City of st. Paul ct al. was
argued before Judge Wilkin. The suit
was brought to recover $4,000 damages
for injuries received by falling through.
a coal hole in front of the National res4
taurant. The judge gave his ruling in
the matter yesterday. He-hefd that the
owner of the building had no right to
construct the coal hole unless licensed
to do so by the city, and even then they,
| might be regarded as a public nuisance.
The case against the city was dismissed
by consent, it appearing that no such
license had been granted. The
court held, however, that the owners of
the building, Messrs. McAllster "
Smith, were liable for damages for con-
structing the coal hole, and Messrs.
Hurd IL Johnson, proprietors of the res
taurant, were liable for maintaining the
same. The case is now or trial. Judge
| Wilkins ruling has caused considerable
| talk among the attorneys, and there is
no doubt that an appeal will be taken to
! the supreme court.
SCALPERS' LICENSES.
A systematic effort is being made by
| the various firms doing railroad ticket
Scalping in st. Paul to recover from the
city the amount paid for license, on the
| ground that no right has been conferred
upon the authorities to exact such a tax
or levy a license on their business.
IL Co.. milford d Mckenzie and Flor
ence Bernard are the prime movers iii
the matter, and their attorneys, Messrs.
Clay and Thompson, had a conference
| with Mayor Smith yesterday in regard
to the refunding of the money. Two
hundred dollars per annum is charged
as a license for the business of ticket
scalping, and suit is to be entered
against the city to-day to recover all
that has previously been paid into the
| treasury on this account. II
COURT NOTES. y 49,
The supreme court yesterday heard ar
guments in the case of George w. Muir
ply, appellant, VS.. Arthur Doyle, re-
spOndent, and the eases of William w.
Stout, appellant, VS.. William p. McMas-
tiers, respondent, and of John Wyvell,
respondent, vs.. III. A. JONES' appellant,
were submitted on briefs. That of
Jennie Sloggy, respondent, VS.. Law
renee Dilworth, ct al, appellant, was
continued by consent.
The case of Lyman D. Hodge, assig
nee, against the City of st. Paul, has
been continued over the term. The
cases of Theodore Engilbrecht and
Anna E. Williamson ct al. against the